Newly hired Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan and GM Dave Nonis will be the top managers of the hockey club, but the pair left the future of coach Randy Carlyle open.

“Randy Carlyle is a good coach, that’s as far as I’m willing to go right now,” Nonis said as he joined Shanahan and MLSE president Tim Leiweke in a news conference Monday morning to address the Leafs failure to make the playoffs.

Leiweke said Shanahan and Nonis will have complete control of the team moving forward.

“Everybody on the hockey side, everybody on the business side for the Toronto Maple Leafs reports in to Brendan Shanahan,” Leiweke said. “He’s the boss.”

Shanahan, a 45-year-old Toronto native, had been working as the head of the NHL’s Department of Player Safety.

“This is the time for me to start learning about the organization from top to bottom,” he told a news conference. “It’s a time for me to listen, to learn and get to work. That’s all that’s really worked for me in my career. That’s what’s worked for me when I was done playing hockey and that’s what I intend to do here.”

The Leafs ended up 12th in the Eastern Conference standings and out of the playoffs after a collapse at the end of the season that included an eight-game losing streak.

Leiweke said one of the challenges for Shanahan and Nonis will be changing the culture in the Leafs organization.

“It’s no secret to those that have been around this organization in the last year, we’re big on character,” said Leiweke. “I spend a lot of time talking about culture and character.”

Leiweke pointed out that MLSE’s other franchises — basketball’s Raptors and soccer’s Toronto FC — have seen positive results after major organizational changes were made.

“I think a lot of that is the commitment we made to create the right environment, to hire the right people, to create the right culture,” he said. “I’m not sure the Leafs have it.”

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